TOKYO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A Japanese teenager has told police he stabbed his mother repeatedly and set fire to the family home because she teased him about his haircut.
The 17-year-old was being held in custody Saturday for the Nov. 13 incident, charged with attempted murder and arson, Mainichi News reported.
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The student told investigators the youth had grown his hair hip-length, but cut it short himself when his parents said he wouldn't find a job with long hair.
After cutting it, he told police his mother poked fun at him, and he became enraged and stabbed her repeatedly. As the 40-year-old woman stumbled from the house for help, the youth said he then set fire to a pile of laundry and fled. The house was gutted.
His trial begins this month.
